🚨Trump’s Day One Executive Orders reportedly include directives (which will likely take time to implement) on pronouns, prison inmates, and passports. But nothing, for now, affecting the ability of trans Americans to obtain medical treatment.
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There are a lot of arbitrary and capricious, equal protection, and cruel and unusual aspects to these proclamations.
The erasure of intersex alone is a significant wrench.
They also do not currently require proof.
https://www.ssa.gov/personal-record/change-sex-identification
I want to help as many people move as possible, but we gotta plan and organize for the folks who can't, too.
If the orange shitheel doesn't try to force a revocation and mail out all new passports for anybody identified trans.
Who knows for how long?
We won't know anything until these start being implemented, and it will depend on each agency.
Directives 1430, 1431, and others govern the provision of LGBT specific services from VA including Care Coordinators, anti discrimination policies, room assignments, prosthetics, and all other non hormonal care. It covers identity documents and misgendering of patients.
It is BAD.
I had my hormones I’m losing on my mind.
Goddammit, I’m trying. Sorry.
Administrative? Guidance and the like about how to deal with certain situations.
Thankfully (in a complicated way), all the solid stuff was on state level.
The courts, for what it is worth, is a good venue for us imo. Unless you get a judge that is specifically being an ideologue, the facts are literally on our side and that's not changing either...
Got a sneaking feeling they are going to bloviate and then try to implement it like the 2013 era rules which required notarized doctors letters from multiple psychologists and an MD.
So it becomes really difficult.
Not that there aren’t plenty who view us as just primarily disgusting. There is a lot of language of us “butchering” ourselves.
These people just make up shit to get mad at
I'm going to go around forcing people to recite as many pronouns as they can now
Seriously. Why can't we just let people live their genuine authentic selves and let them be happy?
Transgender people show that worldview is bullshit, and conservatives hate them for it.
But you don't stand alone.
Please unite us in outrage, Rabbi. There's plenty of energy to direct.